Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 20, 2013
If your nonprofit is not getting retweeted on Twitter, then you haven’t yet found your Twitter voice. Retweets ensure than your nonprofit’s avatar get increased exposure on Twitter which ultimately results in more followers and click-through rates. Twitter itself has concurred that influence on Twitter is not in how many followers you have, but rather in how often you get retweeted.
NCE Social Media
MARCH 20, 2013
In the past week Facebook anounced two changes that I think you should take note of: 1) they are going to start allowing hashtags to be posted in status updates and 2) they changed the news feed again. If you recall from one of my previous posts , hashtags are key words or terms that you expect people to use in searches so that they can find your post(s).
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Robert Weiner
MARCH 20, 2013
Like most lame spam, this one lacks any formatting or graphics. The tricky part is that it's masquerading as a news story sent to me by a friend, and those typically lack formatting and graphics. Clues that it's fake: I don't know the sender; the sender shows as Wendy Kauffman but the text says it came from Rich Webb; it went to an account that I only use for newsletters and discussion lists; and hovering over the URLs shows that they don't lead to a BBC site.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 20, 2013
We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n #npsmpeer. — Brian Fitzgerald (@brianfit) March 10, 2013. One of the basic tenets of my first book with Alison Fine, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” was that everyone in the organization participates in social media from the executive director on down – not just the “social media person.” Having staff use social media as part of their work can ext
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.
ASU Lodestar Center
MARCH 20, 2013
posted by. Carolyn Owens , Grant Writer & Partner. 501 Navigation. Don’t get me wrong. Google is my best friend. I shudder when I think of how difficult it was in the dark ages prior to this uber useful search engine. However, Google is a tool, and like other search engines, a data middleman, not the end result. I myself have been frustrated by even its super powers to extract data that I know is out there in cyberspace.
Care2
MARCH 20, 2013
What do news organizations like CNN and health advocacy organizations like the Susan G. Komen Foundation have in common? They are examples of organizations that have been caught in the middle of a firestorm and don’t have the necessary policies in place to manage an online crisis immediately after it erupts. While CNN is in the business of researching and reporting on the news and Komen is in the business of raising money for breast cancer research, neither of them understands the human si
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Tech Soup
MARCH 20, 2013
The Intuit PaymentNetwork team works with many nonprofits that come to us with a similar problem: How can I encourage more donations and maximize what is already being donated? In tough economic times when nonprofits are fighting for donors, Intuit PaymentNetwork.( read more ).
NTEN
MARCH 20, 2013
Tech Symposium logo. If NTC isn't enough, there's another great conference around the corner! We’re excited to be co-sponsoring the upcoming Engaging Customers and Community through Social Technology Symposium with NeighborWorks America. Join us on May 8th in Portland, OR, and learn how you can leverage social media and technology for social good. What do we mean by social technology?
Tech Soup
MARCH 20, 2013
On March 14, we held a webinar targeted at nonprofits and libraries interested in learning more about the Microsoft Software Donation Program. Titled Make the Most of Your Microsoft Software Donation , this webinar can be viewed at any time as a recording. During the hour, I had the pleasure of speaking with Alexandria Lewis and Carlos Bergfeld about the benefits and details of the Microsoft Software Donation Program.
Connection Cafe
MARCH 20, 2013
I love the smell of a well formatted advocacy thank you page in the morning. Especially when the thank you page is not only thanking me for taking action, but suggesting I share the advocacy action with my friends using social media… AND starring a bold fundraising ask, too. Don’t believe me? Here are three other folks who have joined the advocacy-action-then-donation-ask bandwagon… DENNIS McCARTHY.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio
The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 20, 2013
This week, the Santa Cruz Weekly's cover story is about my museum (the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ) and the work we have done to make it a more participatory, community-centered place over the past two years. The article captures a lot about our approach, from prototyping to perpetual beta to working with artists to developing successful frameworks for diverse visitors to participate.
AFP Blog
MARCH 20, 2013
RSS isn't dead: the best Google Reader alternatives | The Verge : Feedly appears to be the heir apparent to Google Reader’s throne, a modern take on RSS that blends some of the niceties of Flipboard (like a “magazine view”) with useful Reader features like keyboard shortcuts and tags. But its biggest advantage may be that it’s the only RSS application that also has excellent and free companion mobile apps.
AFP Blog
MARCH 20, 2013
Going Mobile: 8 Inspired Ideas for Nonprofits - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Racing to Get Ahead of the Mobile Explosion
AFP Blog
MARCH 20, 2013
Nonprofits: Master "Medium Data" Before Tackling Big Data - Jacob Harold - Harvard Business Review : Nonprofits: Master "Medium Data" Before Tackling Big Data
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